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What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky: Episode 8

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Episode 8

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Frederick has gone back to Japan, and Luisa is impatiently waiting for his first letter.

Frederick has gone back to Japan, and Luisa is impatiently waiting for his first letter. In her anxiety, she has written to him already.

On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen - Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. But who?

As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that they are not superstitious), Selma's granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings long carried secrets to the surface. And when death comes, it comes in a way none of them could have predicted.

A story about the absurdity of life and death, a bittersweet portrait of village life and the wider world that beckons beyond, What You Can See from Here is a story about the way loss and love shape not just a person, but a community.

The international bestseller which sold over 600,000 copies in Germany.

Written by Mariana Leky
Translated by Tess Lewis
Abridged by Joseph Bedell

Produced by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4

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